Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks AO is an author and journalist who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald, National Times and the Wall Street Journal. As a foreign correspondent, she covered crises in the Mideast, Africa and the Balkans. She has written six novels and three works of nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize winning "March" and the bestsellers "People of the Book" and "Horse." In her recent memoir, "Memorial Days," she tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her husband, the writer Tony Horwitz. Alone on Flinders Island, she finally takes the time to grieve and remember; time that noisy modern life so seldom now affords to the bereaved.